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How to add a Startup class to Azure Functions
November 15, 2020 by Anuraj
Azure Functions Serverless
This blog post is about adding a Startup class to Azure Functions. So why we need a startup class for Azure function? For example if you’re building an Azure Function which talks to SQL Server Database or calling an external API, instead of creating the instance of Database Connection or HTTP Client directly in the code it is always recommended to us Dependency Injection, and inject the external dependencies to the functions. As Azure Functions running on top .NET Core, we can use the .NET Core dependency injection techniques.
Add natural language understanding to your bot - Part 2
November 05, 2020 by Anuraj
Azure BotFramework LUIS
This blog post is about adding natural language understanding to your bot. Language Understanding (LUIS) is a cloud-based API service that helps you to recognize the intent of user input and better direct the conversation flow. In the previous post I configured LUIS and in this post I will explain how we can use the LUIS service in a Bot Application.
Add natural language understanding to your bot - Part 1
November 03, 2020 by Anuraj
Azure BotFramework LUIS
This blog post is about adding natural language understanding to your bot. Language Understanding (LUIS) is a cloud-based API service that helps you to recognize the intent of user input and better direct the conversation flow.
Create a multi-container app using a Docker Compose to Azure App service
September 08, 2020 by Anuraj
Azure Docker
This post is about deploying a multi-container app to azure app service using Docker compose. To get started let us create an App Service with Docker first. In the portal, click on Create New, search for Web App and select the Web App option.
Initialize MS SQL Server in Docker container - creating database at startup
September 07, 2020 by Anuraj
SQLServer Docker
Few days back I wrote a blog post about initializing SQL Server while running a docker-compose command. In that implementation I was using another docker image to run the migrations. In this post I am creating a dockerfile, some shell scripts and the SQL Script file which will create the database while running the docker-compose up command.
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